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...Puzzle 2479 Danyyil Dvirnyy v Judit Polgar, Yerevan 2014. Black to move and win. How did the all-time No1 woman exploit White’s exposed king?...
...Puzzle 2475 Andrew Ledger v Andrew Paterson, 4NCL 2022. Black to play. Black’s next move was plausible, but it led to immediate disaster. With this clue, can you work out what happened?...
...Ross has served as the only female executive director — the second most senior post — at any of the agencies....
...No wonder Oxford found that fears about finance were poisoning confidence; or that the chance of a V-shaped economic recovery seems increasingly low. gillian.tett@ft.com...
...Kingston Polymath 1,011: Dr S Bailey, Swindon Crossword 16,099: Suzanne P Wilson, Windermere; D Barter, Cumbria; Jean-Marc Sellier, California Polymath 1,010: Robert Jelly, Warwickshire Crossword 16,093: V...
...There is growing optimism that a “V-shaped” rebound — which had been widely dismissed only a month ago — could be on the horizon....
...Read more about Silvercorp USA, the private security company involved in the foiled operation....
...This, he tweeted, made it “unfairly easier for them to compete against the USA”....
...My own feeling is that this will not be a V or even a U-shaped recovery, but a downwardly trending W that has a high risk of turning into a L....
...But after initially siding with Team USA, these countries, both those in the Five Eyes intelligence sharing network and others, are having second thoughts....
...“It could serve as an important bellwether for the rest of the eurozone”, says Bert Colijn, senior eurozone economist at ING....
...Abernathy MacGregor has hired Eileen Cohen as a senior counsellor specialising in corporate governance and shareholder engagement....
...One senior supporter says: “I’m looking forward to going on the BBC on October 30 [the day before the Brexit deadline] and saying, ‘Ah yes, “do or die” was always a metaphor.’” 5....
...“A baby, gasping on an abortion clinic table, should not be left to die,” Republican Ben Sasse, the Nebraska senator wrote in an op-ed for USA Today....
...It has even been suggested that Mario Draghi, the outgoing president of the ECB, replace Ms Lagarde in a job swap....
...(FT) Boomers v millennials investing challenge The millennials have come of age, but their impact on stock market returns is only beginning....
...Pell is the most senior Roman Catholic Church official to have been convicted of child sex abuse....
...A founder of Italy’s Five Star Movement, Grillo brought 2m protesters to the streets in 2007 for a “V-Day” rally....
...His audience helped to drown the heckler out (“USA! USA! USA!”)...
...Messi lost two of his three Copa América finals on penalty shoot-outs (both to Chile, in 2015 and 2016) and his World Cup final to Mario Götze’s goal in extra time....
...Nicolas Véron, Senior Fellow, Bruegel & Peterson Institute for International Economics No one dominates the field as Mario Draghi did in 2011. Erkki Liikanen is a plausible compromise choice....
...In 2012, ECB president Mario Draghi had promised to do “whatever it takes” to save the euro....
...Fresh money to bring Balotelli to America “Could Mario Balotelli be on the verge of a long-anticipated move to Major League Soccer?”...
...Vince Rivers, a senior portfolio manager at JO Hambro, said: “You can beat the index by buying a couple of IPOs that aren’t in the index” if the listings outperform the broader market....
...“It’s the triple Draghi,” summarises one senior German banker. “Part one is the interest rates. Part two is that there are no alternative investments....
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